So, how exactly does one apply for this card? I pulled up a list of all the cards MBNA does off of their website, and I don't see it listed. I went to the linuxfund page, and there's a link that says "click here to apply today", yet when I click there, I get sent to http://www.linuxfund.org/products, which is the same page I was already at.. Has it been discontinued? Meh. My credit is so bad I'm sure they wouldn't let me have it anyway. There's a number to call, but hey, I'm a geek, I'm not going to pick up a phone if there's a way to do it online.
Interesting that the site has a big "Viewable with Any Browser" button at the bottom. Yeah, I guess you can "view" it with IE. Good luck reading the text though. Yes, I'm sure the site is perfectly html/css compliant, but saying it's "Viewable with Any Browser" is sure pushing it.
This is slashdot, so of course I didn't RTFA, but going by the headline - XP Starter edition is supposed to be aimed at low end machines. I bought my first Athlon probally 3 - 4 years ago. I think it was 1.2ghz. That's not low end these days?
I couldn't RTFA because it's coughing up Internal Server Errors, but how is this different from the "web accelerators" that have been available for years? The one we currently use at my work is RabbIT - it reencodes images to a lower quality, saving bandwidth, and also gzips the pages. It makes browsing on a 56k seem signifigantly faster. Sure seems very similar to what this is doing, and certianly isn't anything revolutionary.
Yeah. Last year I bought 11 SparcStation IPCs off ebay (Just to muck around with). Turns out they were from the University of Arizona, and apparently they had actually been using them up until last year. Who knows what for. Damn things still work great, except for the dead NVRAM batteries. Easily fixed with a battery a dremel a wire and some solder though. I swear I could drive my car over one of them while it was running, and it would not only remain intact, but continue running, and be in damn near perfect shape.
My boss was one of the guys who worked on the Commodore 128 - there's a key sequence you can press (I don't recall what it is off the top of my head - I'm sure a quick googling will turn it up) that will bring up all the engineers names, and an anti-war message. I never had a 128, but I found someone on IRC a couple years back that had one right next to him. I googled up the key sequence, and relayed it back to him, and he read back everything it said to me. It was pretty neat that I work in a pretty small (under 20 employees) company, and my bosses name pops up on a C128.
but it sure runs great on a Zaurus w/ a microdrive or a big SD card. Also, a lot of the software that has been ported to the Zaurus has been done by modifying the debian ARM versions. Losing support in Debian for upcoming versions would put a big hamper on porting new software to the Zaurus.
I suppose that's a matter of opinion. A good part of the reason I play battletech is for nostalgia. I don't agree with some of the plot twists they've thrown in, and damned if I can find a single battletech sourcebook in any game shop anywhere near me, whereas 10 years ago all these same shops had shelves upon shelves of books, and racks and racks of miniatures. Now it's all Warhammer everywhere.
Classic Battletech - it's one of the very few things that can pull me away from my laptop. (Except when I use the Artillery Resolution Tracker program in conjunction w/ the table top game) Takes damn near forever to do anything, but that's part of the fun.
I recently got back in to Battletech after a decade or so hiatus, and was really disappointed in all the new stuff - after FASA sold BTech, it seems to have gone downhill. Regardless, you can still pick up all the old stuff on ebay and pretend that the new stuff never happened.
There might not be broadband from major providers, but I'm sure you can find a small mom and pop place that will shoot you a wireless signal. I can think of several in Philadelphia off the top of my head. If for some reason none of them could do it, I'm sure my work would be more then happy to take the customer;).
At least around here, it's the city of Philadelphia pushing for free internet access - I can say without a doubt, that there is not a single address in Philadelphia without access to broadband. I don't know much about other places pushing for free internet access, but I doubt they're going to have better penetration rates then your local ISPs or telco/cable company. I work for an ISP, and in fact, places out in the boondocks are our best customers. That's the one place where I don't think free government broadband would ever hurt us. They're not going to pay to put service out in to areas where it's primarily farms, but around here you can get DSL through most of Amish country.
The government shouldn't be providing free internet access anyway. Why should local ISPs have to compete with the government? If they're going to make anything free, how about electricity?
Get one off ebay, and stuff it w/ a mini or nano-itx board. A bit more work then just buying something from a manufacturer, but you've got more freedom in what you put in it, and you keep the small form factor and really cool lookin' case.
and (unless it's changed - i don't keep up) over/underrated doesn't show up in metamoderation, so you can't get smacked down by people that don't like how you've moderated.
yes, it's a big number, but the point is still valid. One of my techs is a college student and uses VoIP to access our phone system and take tech support calls. We've actually seen his latency go all the way up to a full 4 seconds before - (Not on satellite, and only with his UDP packets. Go figure). Obviously his VoIP was useless until we got the issue resolved. Much like it would be over a satellite connection with a bunch of soldiers bogging it down trying to call home.
When you're talking about several thousand milliseconds of latency, all the bandwidth in the world isn't going to make your VoIP any better. If it takes 2000ms from when the packet leaves your VoIP provider until when it gets to you, no matter what you do, your conversation is going to have a 2000ms delay..
unless I'm wrong, which I'm pretty sure I'm not, but if I am, please post back! I'm sure my VoIP customers would most appreciate it;)
I'll give you XP, I admit I run it on my laptop, but Exchange? You can't possibly think that Exchange is 'pretty fucking good'. Even my friends who are MS Fanboys hate exchange
This is discussed a lot over on ISP-Lists - you'll probally find this page very helpful.
The guy who wrote it is a guru in homebrew type services - dsl and wireless.
I'm using ampache at home for this. I have ampache installed on a junker machine in each room - they connect via smb (over regular ol' 802.11b) to the debian box in the computer room that has all the music on it. I use my zaurus to hit the webserver on which ever machine runs the room I'm in, (zaurus is on 802.11b also) set up my playlist, and away it goes. Pretty nifty system actually, and it's all open source.
I'm one of those people. I enjoy building, and I really enjoy business simulations, like Capitalism 2, or the Tycoon games. I've probally spent as many hours playing those as most gamers have spent fragging their buddies in their favorite FPSes.
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So, how exactly does one apply for this card? I pulled up a list of all the cards MBNA does off of their website, and I don't see it listed. I went to the linuxfund page, and there's a link that says "click here to apply today", yet when I click there, I get sent to http://www.linuxfund.org/products, which is the same page I was already at.. Has it been discontinued? Meh. My credit is so bad I'm sure they wouldn't let me have it anyway. There's a number to call, but hey, I'm a geek, I'm not going to pick up a phone if there's a way to do it online.
Interesting that the site has a big "Viewable with Any Browser" button at the bottom. Yeah, I guess you can "view" it with IE. Good luck reading the text though. Yes, I'm sure the site is perfectly html/css compliant, but saying it's "Viewable with Any Browser" is sure pushing it.
This is slashdot, so of course I didn't RTFA, but going by the headline - XP Starter edition is supposed to be aimed at low end machines. I bought my first Athlon probally 3 - 4 years ago. I think it was 1.2ghz. That's not low end these days?
"Good to know that those files aren't completely locked. "
...yet.
I couldn't RTFA because it's coughing up Internal Server Errors, but how is this different from the "web accelerators" that have been available for years? The one we currently use at my work is RabbIT - it reencodes images to a lower quality, saving bandwidth, and also gzips the pages. It makes browsing on a 56k seem signifigantly faster. Sure seems very similar to what this is doing, and certianly isn't anything revolutionary.
Yeah. Last year I bought 11 SparcStation IPCs off ebay (Just to muck around with). Turns out they were from the University of Arizona, and apparently they had actually been using them up until last year. Who knows what for. Damn things still work great, except for the dead NVRAM batteries. Easily fixed with a battery a dremel a wire and some solder though. I swear I could drive my car over one of them while it was running, and it would not only remain intact, but continue running, and be in damn near perfect shape.
My boss was one of the guys who worked on the Commodore 128 - there's a key sequence you can press (I don't recall what it is off the top of my head - I'm sure a quick googling will turn it up) that will bring up all the engineers names, and an anti-war message. I never had a 128, but I found someone on IRC a couple years back that had one right next to him. I googled up the key sequence, and relayed it back to him, and he read back everything it said to me. It was pretty neat that I work in a pretty small (under 20 employees) company, and my bosses name pops up on a C128.
but it sure runs great on a Zaurus w/ a microdrive or a big SD card. Also, a lot of the software that has been ported to the Zaurus has been done by modifying the debian ARM versions. Losing support in Debian for upcoming versions would put a big hamper on porting new software to the Zaurus.
I suppose that's a matter of opinion. A good part of the reason I play battletech is for nostalgia. I don't agree with some of the plot twists they've thrown in, and damned if I can find a single battletech sourcebook in any game shop anywhere near me, whereas 10 years ago all these same shops had shelves upon shelves of books, and racks and racks of miniatures. Now it's all Warhammer everywhere.
Classic Battletech - it's one of the very few things that can pull me away from my laptop. (Except when I use the Artillery Resolution Tracker program in conjunction w/ the table top game) Takes damn near forever to do anything, but that's part of the fun. I recently got back in to Battletech after a decade or so hiatus, and was really disappointed in all the new stuff - after FASA sold BTech, it seems to have gone downhill. Regardless, you can still pick up all the old stuff on ebay and pretend that the new stuff never happened.
There might not be broadband from major providers, but I'm sure you can find a small mom and pop place that will shoot you a wireless signal. I can think of several in Philadelphia off the top of my head. If for some reason none of them could do it, I'm sure my work would be more then happy to take the customer ;).
At least around here, it's the city of Philadelphia pushing for free internet access - I can say without a doubt, that there is not a single address in Philadelphia without access to broadband. I don't know much about other places pushing for free internet access, but I doubt they're going to have better penetration rates then your local ISPs or telco/cable company. I work for an ISP, and in fact, places out in the boondocks are our best customers. That's the one place where I don't think free government broadband would ever hurt us. They're not going to pay to put service out in to areas where it's primarily farms, but around here you can get DSL through most of Amish country.
The government shouldn't be providing free internet access anyway. Why should local ISPs have to compete with the government? If they're going to make anything free, how about electricity?
Get one off ebay, and stuff it w/ a mini or nano-itx board. A bit more work then just buying something from a manufacturer, but you've got more freedom in what you put in it, and you keep the small form factor and really cool lookin' case.
and (unless it's changed - i don't keep up) over/underrated doesn't show up in metamoderation, so you can't get smacked down by people that don't like how you've moderated.
extreme loads of advertising? It's 15min an episode, w/ no commercials in the middle, unless it's changed since last time I watched it.
the Chinese?
yes, it's a big number, but the point is still valid. One of my techs is a college student and uses VoIP to access our phone system and take tech support calls. We've actually seen his latency go all the way up to a full 4 seconds before - (Not on satellite, and only with his UDP packets. Go figure). Obviously his VoIP was useless until we got the issue resolved. Much like it would be over a satellite connection with a bunch of soldiers bogging it down trying to call home.
When you're talking about several thousand milliseconds of latency, all the bandwidth in the world isn't going to make your VoIP any better. If it takes 2000ms from when the packet leaves your VoIP provider until when it gets to you, no matter what you do, your conversation is going to have a 2000ms delay..
;)
unless I'm wrong, which I'm pretty sure I'm not, but if I am, please post back! I'm sure my VoIP customers would most appreciate it
Flamebait?? How so? try 'interesting'
unless the second casino just sends someone over to the first casino to cash the chips out.
I'll give you XP, I admit I run it on my laptop, but Exchange? You can't possibly think that Exchange is 'pretty fucking good'. Even my friends who are MS Fanboys hate exchange
This is discussed a lot over on ISP-Lists - you'll probally find this page very helpful. The guy who wrote it is a guru in homebrew type services - dsl and wireless.
I'm using ampache at home for this. I have ampache installed on a junker machine in each room - they connect via smb (over regular ol' 802.11b) to the debian box in the computer room that has all the music on it. I use my zaurus to hit the webserver on which ever machine runs the room I'm in, (zaurus is on 802.11b also) set up my playlist, and away it goes. Pretty nifty system actually, and it's all open source.
I'm one of those people. I enjoy building, and I really enjoy business simulations, like Capitalism 2, or the Tycoon games. I've probally spent as many hours playing those as most gamers have spent fragging their buddies in their favorite FPSes.